PatentChecker workflow
Freedom-to-operate monitoring in practice
A concrete workflow for biotech teams that need continuous patent monitoring with deterministic, audit-ready evidence.
Not legal advice. PatentChecker provides evidence and change receipts so teams can decide sooner.
Workflow summary
•Continuous watchlist monitoring for a therapeutic protein program.
•Weekly cadence with deterministic artifacts and alert routing.
•Offline verification so counsel can trust results without source access.
Step-by-step
Step 1
Define the watchlist
Provide sequence sets tied to the program, plus any known families and jurisdictions to scope coverage.
Step 2
Establish the baseline
Run a first pass to generate an initial run manifest, digest, and Evidence Packets.
Step 3
Monitor on cadence
Run weekly (or per your policy) and emit material deltas with cooldown suppression to avoid alert spam.
Step 4
Review evidence, not dashboards
Counsel and R&D review the run digest and Evidence Packets, with hashes and provenance preserved.
Step 5
Verify offline when it matters
Use patentchecker artifacts verify on the run directory to confirm integrity and consistency without any external access.
Inputs required
•Sequence sets tied to the program (with optional regions of interest).
•Metadata map for sequence identifiers and program context.
•Corpus coverage declaration (jurisdictions, sequence types, made_public_until).
•Alert routing targets (webhook or Slack).
Outputs per run
•Run manifest with inputs, parameters, coverage, and output references.
•Run digest (human-readable) and digest.json (machine summary).
•Evidence Packets for each material delta with declared scope.
•Suppressed packets with reasons for non-events.
•Watchlist state for deterministic continuity.
Decisions this enables
•Escalate material deltas to counsel with full provenance.
•Demonstrate absence of change with defensible artifacts.
•Audit any historical run without re-running the pipeline.
Ready to apply this workflow to your program?
We can scope watchlists, cadence, and alert thresholds around your sequences and coverage requirements.